Friday, February 02, 2007

Like all the worst horror films - combined

Climate change and global warming, which I often rant on about, are things that have haunted me for years, but now at least it seems that many politicians, newspapers and even corporations are coming round to the fact that these things will cause devastating changes to our way of life as we now know it (see here). Many leading supermarkets are beginning to see the error of their ways over absurd packaging. Customers are becoming more aware of how simple decisions can affect their lives. Kids are using pamper power to get their parents to switch off lights, drive less, fly less and buy more fuel efficient cars. Schools in Britain will teach about the effects of climate change from next year. Seeing as the future is not us, but our children and the generations to come then they do have a point. It can't be left for them to clear up the mess, or what looks more and more likely, for them to see catastrophic changes occurring in front of them, brought about by the rapacious greed and stupidity of those generations that came before.
So there are many positive things happening now, but it takes political will to make real change happen, because although some talk, it needs actions by politicians, through laws, which the rest of us then follow. Of course people can make changes themselves, but politicians need to take us further and faster, because this is the mother of all nightmares coming home to roost.
Of course there are still great evils in the world - one: George W Bush, the Great Bullshitter, whose conversion is superficial and nonsensical (see here). And other evil (here) which mentions how Exxon Mobil have actually been paying scientists to refute the latest conclusions from the IPCC about how global warming is most likely being caused by us.
I really hope people make changes to their lifestyles, make a difference, because the alternatives are quite frankly terrifying (see here).

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